This beach in the Maldives, on some special nights, glows with various bioluminescent critters--according to New Scientist, probably "single-celled protists and marine crustaceans called copepods."

Scan your friend's brain, 3D print the model, create mould with model, fill with chocolate, devour. 

The minuscule Peel P50, which was featured in a famous episode of Top Gear, has come back to life after nearly 50 years with two new models, including this P50. The P50 weighs 110 kilos, has a 2.5-kilowatt motor, and can manage a top speed of 45 kph. You can also tow it around with one hand.

Bristol Zoo Gardens in Bristol, England received several life-sized, animatronic dinosaurs this week. Moving them around seems to have been difficult.

This shot of three military planes--an F-15, an F-16, and an A-10, according to The Aviationist--wasn't taken during a thorough cleaning session. It was an accident! A spark from a welder triggered the fire suppression systems, releasing fast-acting foam.

This is the first time a (non-extinct) lizard has even been examined with a CT scan, which kind of surprises us: if we had access to a CT scanner, you had better believe we'd be scanning literally everything we could find.

Today is Facebook IPO day! And we mostly don't care, since none of us here are early Facebook investors or had fictionalised versions of ourselves in any Aaron Sorkin movie. But it's a big deal inasmuch as nobody will shut up about it, so for posterity, here's how Zuckerberg announced it.

So the Space Shuttle Cafe isn't actually constructed out of a former space shuttle--it's just a DC3 plane that's been painted to look like one. Of course, even a street-legal DC3 is pretty awesome, and this one serves food? Let us know the next time you're in Sydney, huh guys?

This long-exposure shot--like, 10-15 minutes--shows the Mini-Research Module (MRM1, centre) and a Russian Progress vehicle docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment (right).

Launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome (how come we don't have a cosmodrome? That is the greatest word) in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-04M rocket heads to the ISS with astronauts in tow.